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The Influence Of Individualistic Ideas On American Mobility, Markus Magiera
The Influence Of Individualistic Ideas On American Mobility, Markus Magiera
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
In this paper I showcase the influence of individualistic thinking ranging back as far as Age of Enlightenment on the development of mobility in America since the eighteenth century. My goal is to identify the factors that shaped the evolution of travel. In order to do so I start by analyzing texts from the early nineteenth century, where travel by foot was the common thing. Next I focus on new means of mobility; first the bicycle, and later on the automobile. I aim to convince that modernity's main instigator was the change in thinking brought forth in the Age of …
Travels On The St. Johns River., Thomas Hallock, John Bartram, William Bartram, Richard Franz
Travels On The St. Johns River., Thomas Hallock, John Bartram, William Bartram, Richard Franz
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In 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the plants, animals, geography, ecology, and native cultures of an essentially uncharted region. The chronicle of their adventures provided the world with an intimate look at La Florida. Travels on the St. Johns River includes writings from the Bartrams' journey in a flat-bottomed boat from St. Augustine to the river's swampy headwaters near Lake Loughman, just west of today's Cape Canaveral. Vivid entries from John's Diary …
Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 2 (Chapters 8 To 14), Jon Miller
Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 2 (Chapters 8 To 14), Jon Miller
Jon Miller
Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 3 (Chapters 15 To 23), Jon Miller
Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 3 (Chapters 15 To 23), Jon Miller
Jon Miller
Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 1 (Chapters 1 To 7), Jon Miller
Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 1 (Chapters 1 To 7), Jon Miller
Jon Miller